Example sentences of "picked [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 2 | Two of the archers picked me up under the armpits and hustled me down the steps of the scaffold . |
| 3 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 4 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 5 | He gave the women a thirty-second start and picked them up on the northbound carriageway with ease . |
| 6 | Grimma picked herself up from the plank and nervously started to pick bits of rust off herself . |
| 7 | A moment ago , the Home Secretary said that every applicant for asylum would have the right to go to an appeal tribunal , and his hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. Kellett-Bowman ) rightly picked him up on the point . |
| 8 | Hilary was eighteen when Meredith picked him up at the BBC Club . ’ |
| 9 | and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for . |
| 10 | Nails ' foot hooked for him , picked him out of the water and , with a neat thrust to the chest , stood him upright . |
| 11 | That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine . |
| 12 | Peter took her there and picked her up at the end of the day . |
| 13 | ‘ When I picked her up from the station , she had asked me about you and Nigger before we got into Berkeley . |
| 14 | I picked her up from the hospital on my way back from a meeting on Kowloon-side . |
| 15 | He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action . |
| 16 | Thence one recognised route led on to Ludlow , and so due east through Bewdley and Bromsgrove , through the country south of Birmingham , to the point near Kenilworth where where we previously picked it up on the map . |
| 17 | I picked it up off the floor , and it looked perfectly new . ’ |
| 18 | I picked it up off the Manchester lads in our regiment . |
| 19 | ‘ Picked it up off The Idlers . ’ |
| 20 | I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition . |
| 21 | The driver , swearing loudly as his passengers picked themselves up from the floor and out of each other 's laps , opened the front door and jumped down to see what had happened to Adam . |
| 22 | I got out of bed gah ! — and then picked myself up off the floor . |
| 23 | ‘ So it will confuse the trackers mightily — especially since I think they picked us up at the Luxembourg border crossing , then followed us in our Mercedes down the autobahn . ’ |
| 24 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |